Shirt.



F. G. BAUGATZ. SHIRT, APPLICATION FILED APILZB, 1910.

1,002, 1 17, Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

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SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 29, 1911.

Application filed Apri1 25, 1910. Serial No. 557,503.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIO GEORGES BAUGATZ, a citizen of the Republicof France, residing at 27 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, France, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Shirts,of which the following is a specification.

. The present invention relates to improve ments in that class ofshirts, particularly dress shirts of the coat type, in which the lowerportion of the bosom is not attached to the shirt body, but is left freeand constitutes a flap, the object of such construction being to preventbulging or creasing of the shirt bosom when the wearer stoops or sitsdown. To further this object, I contemplate the employment of a plainpermanently-fiat flexible gore of exactly the same size and shape as thefree portion or flap of the bosom, the gore being stitched at its topedge to the shirt body and at its remaining edge to the correspondingedge of said flap.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing, where- 1n Figure 1 is a front view of a coat-shirt with theinvention applied, the flap being turned up. Fig. 2 is a view similar toFig. 1, but showing one half of the shirt bosom turned back, and theflaps of both halves in their normal position.

In carrying out the invention, I employ a bi-partit-e segmental gore aof suitable textile material, the two halves of the gore being made withsloping inner edges. This gore, as a whole, is of substantially the samesize and shape as the bi-partite flap 7) produced by the lower portionsor flaps of the bi-partite shirt bosom c. The straight top edges of thehalves of said gore are stitched to the corresponding straight parts (Zof the halves of the bi-partite shirt body that lie under the flaphalves, and their curved lower portions are stitched to the curved loweredges of said flap halves. The parts a and Z) thus produce, betweenthem, a bag or pocket, as it were, whose edges may be opened out orspread apart for washing and ironing purposes. It will be seen,therefore, that the bosom has no rows of stitches extending across it,and can, accordingly, be utilized in its entirety irrespective of thecharacter of the opening in the waist-coat. Moreover, the edges of thebosom are prevented from fraying when the shirt is in use and also fromshrinking at the top and tearing during laundrying.

I claim as my invention:

A coat-shirt comprising a bi-partite body portion and bosom, said bosomhaving a bipartite free lower end portion of segmental shapeconstituting a flap, in combination with a permanently-flat bi-partitegore of the same size and shape as said flap having the straight topedges of its two halves stitched to the adjacent halves of said bodyportion and the curved lower edges of its halves stitched to the curvedlower edges of the adjacent halves of said flap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERIC GEORGES BAUGATZ.

Witnesses:

H. C. Coxn, HENRY GHAnLns RoLLnr.

Copies 01 this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

